Summary of "The Host Musters"

    The beginning of the chapter takes place at a Greek encampment on the shores of Troy. Agamemnon is walking by the tents and watched the soldiers as they prepared. He and Achilles argued because Achilles wasn't preparing for war, he was lounging and drinking wine that he had brought to him. The was took place outside the gates of Troy. "High overhead the invisible gods ranged them selves on this side or that (pg. 54)." Above  the Greeks stood Hera, Poseidon, Athene, Hephaistos, and Hermes. Above the Trojans were Apollo, Ares, Artemis, and Skamander. Achilles burst into the battle on a gold chariot, being pulled by  two white horses. Achilles leaped off his chariot

Character Catalog

Zeus: "...who was the ruler of gods and men" (pg.3).

Thetis: "...was as hard to catch as the sun on the dancing water" (pg.3/4).

Peleus: "...king o the myrmidons..." (pg.4).

Hera: "...stately...,queen of the gods..." (pg.6).

Athene: "gray-eyed Athene [goddess of wisdom]..." (pg.6).

Aphrodite: "...golden Aphrodite [goddess of love]..." (pg.6).

Priam: "...what is the life of one child against the wellfare of all" (pg.7).

Hecuba: "...queen Hecuba..." (pg.6).

Paris (Alexandro): "...his golden curls and ruddy cheeks burned brown by the open air" (pg.7).

Discord: "...evil goddess, dark Discord..." (pg.4).


Achilles: "...famous for his strength..., speed..., and his beauty" (pg. 21)

Chiron: "...centaur,... half horse, half man..." (pg.21)


Agamemnon: "... ambitious... Agamemnon..." (pg.15)
Agamemnon was the king of Sparta. He was a very selfish man. He was the person who rounded up all the Greeks at the encampment at Aulis. He sacrificed his daughter to change the winds so he could go to war, because his pride was more important to him than his daughter. "...the kings nature could not bear the reproach of failure... (pg.30)"

Palamedes: "... the cleverest of them all..." (pg.16)

Odysseus: "... the wisest man in Greece..." (pg.16)

Penelope: "... [Odysseus's] dear wife..." (pg.17)

Aeneas: "... a great race shall spring from me, and... it shall rule the greeks themselves..." (pg.37)


Antenor: "...beware lest in your anger [, or] you ['ll] bring the same fate on troy" (pg.37)


Protesilaus: "Happier are the meanest slaves on earth than the ghosts in the valleys of Elysium" (pg.49)


Calchas: Calchas was a man who "knew the minds of the gods and could tell the future (pg.28)". He was Agamemnon's soothsayer. He was the one who told Agamemnon that he had to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia.


Iphigenia: Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon. Her mother was Clytemnestra. She was told by her father that she was to be wed to Achilles. "The poor girl came full of eagerness [and]... in her best clothes..."(pg.29) only to find that she was to be sacrificed by her father.


Cressida: "she would not... walk abroad in the city until the men had gone... to battle (pg.58)"


Troilus: "yellow-haired, blue-eyed, and unusually tall (pg.62)"